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Confort with silence in different countries
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So I'm from Germany but I live in Korea. And especially in the beginning when I arrived here as a agile coach for a big automotive supplier company where I was supposed to teach them the new processes and so on it was terrifying.
I would do a presentation of something and then my expectation was that we would talk about parts of it and there would be follow up questions about details, etc. but more often than not there was just silence. And that would eat me up inside to a degree where some times I would complain about it and just cut the meetings short.
Over time I realized that they are comfortable sitting and thinking about what I showed them.
But it's still difficult for me :D
If comfortable with noise was also charted, Japan would top that list as well.
I've never experienced such auditory and visual assault as I have there. The busy visitor centre for a national park had a door that chimed when it opened, a little doodad that sung a tinny electronic song every thirty seconds, two televisions with different audio tracks playing about the various peaceful natural wonders you're about to experience, a vending machine that had a little ditty it would chirp out, the toilet spoke to you, saying what I can only assume to be was "Hello! Thank you for choosing me to take care of you today! I hope you had a good shit! Have a good day!".
Oh you're right similar in Korea, Taxis have a navigation which speaks constantly, they have the radio or TV on and they are on the phone at the same time.
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